Fashion brands top most wanted jobs list for British students

Models on the catwalk at Burberry's autumn/winter 2012 catwalk show at London Fashion Week. Photo: AFP

With figures released earlier this year revealing that the British fashion industry is currently worth in the region of £21 billion to the UK economy, it's perhaps no surprise that a career in fashion is among the most sought-after by students.

In comparison, the global top 10 doesn't include a single fashion brand, being instead dominated by Internet, finance and software companies including Google (1), Microsoft (3), IBM (4), and Apple (10).

To compile the lists, Linkedin looked at the Company Follow, Company Page, Job and Profile viewing activity of more than 20 million students and recent graduates registered on the site, before breaking the figures down into smaller regions.

"We know one of the main reasons our members follow a company is because they want to work there," a spokesperson told the
Telegraph
.

'We also included views of job listings in our analysis, indicating an interest in available roles at these companies."